About This Album

Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan is a studio album by American indie folk band The Mountain Goats, led by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, released November 7, 2025 via Cadmean Dawn. The Mountain Goats have built a prolific and influential career in indie music since the early 1990s, known for their vast discography of storytelling and literary lyricism. Darnielle awoke from a dream in which he had titled an album Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, with no sense of sonic direction, and proceeded to write the entire album based on this arbitrary title. Produced by the band’s multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas (who also co-wrote several songs), the record is embracing, inviting, and overflowing with melody and orchestration that extends far beyond the boundaries of their past work. 12 tracks.

About This Pressing

2LP Black Vinyl pressing. Cadmean Dawn, November 7, 2025.

Technical Specifications

Format: 2LP Black Vinyl (12 tracks)  │  Label: Cadmean Dawn (2025)  │  Producer: Matt Douglas

Tracklist

Side A
A1. Overture
A2. Fishing Boat
A3. Cold at Night

Side B
B1. Dawn of Revelation
B2. Your Bandage
B3. Peru

Side C
C1. Through This Fire
C2. Rocks in My Pockets
C3. Armies of the Lord

Side D
D1. Your Glow
D2. Lady from Shanghai 2
D3. Broken to Begin With